STORING BOATS
Cars aren’t the only vehicles that can be dispensed like a bag of crisps or a chocolate bar. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the F3 Marina is a 240-rack facility that can store boats weighing up to around 13,600 kilograms. The marina’s fully automated crane system can lift boats from its wet well and carry them into a rack location – the boat’s parking spot – in under five minutes. This smart marina can lift and navigate boats up to 14 metres in length and six metres in height at the touch of a button. Similarly to a vending machine, once the boats are ready to collect they are autonomously lowered into the wet well, ready to sail away.